Parallel Computer Research in the Wisconsin Wind Tunnel Project
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The paper summarizes the Wisconsin Wind Tunnel Project’s research into parallel computer design and methods. Our principal design contributions—Cooperative Shared Memory and the Tempest Parallel Programming Substrate—seek to balance the programming benefits of a shared address space with facilities for low-level performance optimizations. The project has refined and compared a variety of ideas with a unique mixture of techniques that include microarchitecture-level simulation, software prototyping, and rapid hardware prototyping. An important by-product of this research has been innovative tools, such as the Wisconsin Wind Tunnel and the Executable Editing Library.
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